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Pat Travers’ Influence and Career Connections
Nuno Bettencourt has cited Pat Travers’ 1979 Live! Go For What You Know as a major source of influence, alongside several documented connections in Travers’ career.
Nuno Bettencourt considers Pat Travers’ 1979 album Live! Go For What You Know a major source of influence. Bettencourt and Travers performed together last year in Orange County, California.
Travers moved to London in 1975 at the age of 21. Peter ‘Mars’ Cowling was an important bassist in the Pat Travers Band and a longtime member of the group. Nicko McBrain and Tommy Aldridge also spent time in Travers’ band.
Neil Schon introduced Pat Travers to Pat Thrall. Travers has more than 50 studio and live albums, and he appeared as a guest artist on recordings by Glenn Hughes and Extreme. In 2019, Travers made a jazz album titled Swing!.
The Mountain Goats’ 2017 album Goths includes a track titled Rage Of Travers about Pat Travers.
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